Students Present Research at COPLAC Conference

GENESEO, N.Y. - Eight SUNY Geneseo students
presented their
research projects Oct. 29-30 at the Council of Liberal Arts
Colleges (COPLAC) Northeast
Undergraduate Research Conference in New Hampshire.

Keene State College in Keene, N.H., hosted the conference, where
150
students from six colleges featured their research in the
humanities, arts,
social sciences and natural sciences. The students discussed their
work with
other presenters and faculty in their discipline from other COPLAC
colleges. It
was the largest-ever gathering of undergraduate researchers at a
COPLAC
sponsored conference.

"Undergraduate research is a hallmark at Geneseo that carries
innumerable
benefits for our students," said Geneseo Provost Carol Long. "I
commend COPLAC
for providing these opportunities for students to present their
research and
engage in dialogue with fellow scholars for further understanding
of their
discipline."

Geneseo students presenting at the conference include:

Daniel Bailey,
a senior history major from
Pittsford, N.Y. Project title: "Compromising on Compromises: The
Failure of the
Rochester City School District to Desegregate." Faculty mentor:
Emilye Crosby,
professor of history.

Paul Fallot,
a senior history major from
Riverhead, N.Y. Project title: "The Secret History of the
Mongols and the
Mongolian Historical Perspective." Faculty mentor: Margaret
Stolee, assistant
professor of history.

Marissa Fariello, a senior English literature and
French major from Johnstown, N.Y. Project title: "Surrealism's
Empowerment of
Women: Sexuality and Madness in Andre Breton's Nadia."
Faculty mentor: Beverly J. Evans, associate professor of
languages and literatures.

Kaitlyn Gayvert, a senior mathematics major from
Rochester, N.Y. Project title: "Computational Efficiencies of
Stochastic
Algorithms." Faculty mentors: H.T. Banks, Shuhua Hu and Alana
Thompson from
North Carolina State University and Michelle Joyner from East
Tennessee State
University.

Paul Muniz, a
junior sociology major from
Piscataway, N.J. Project title: "Should
We House the Homeless?" Faculty mentors: Paul McLaughlin,
lecturer in sociology
and Anne Eisenberg, associate professor of sociology.

Michaela Walsh,
a psychology and sociology major
from Syracuse, N.Y. Project title:
"Testing the Capacity of Short-Term memory for Multiple Stimulus
Attributes of
a Series of Visually Displayed Items." Faculty mentors: Ken Kallio, associate professor of
psychology.